This study examined the antecedents and consequences of pleasant affective state at work, relying on Weiss and Cropanzano’s (1996) Affective Events Theory. In the tested framework, positive and negative work events were assessed comprehensively under five broad categories (i.e., task-relevant events, relations with supervisor, relations with coworkers, relations with subordinates, and organizat...

this study was conducted to investigate the relationship of quality of working life and organizational commitment of agricultural extension experts’ in kerman province, iran. correlational-descriptive research method was used in this study. research sample including 123 experts were selected from 180 ones in kerman agricultural extension sector using krejcie & morgan’s table and proportional st...

Introduction: Job satisfaction and organizational commitment are considered prerequisites of internal and external efficiency of an organization. This study was aimed at investigating the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment of health educators of high schools in Hormozgan Province. Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study with respect to data analysis, 11...

The experience of job insecurity has been related to several organizational outcomes, both immediate and long-term. However, since the strength of these effects have been found to vary across studies, it is essential to identify factors that could influence the relationships. The current study examines interaction effects between job insecurity and organizational justice (distributive, procedur...

In order to account for wide variation in the relationship between leader-member exchange and employees' affective organizational commitment, we propose a concept termed supervisor's organizational embodiment (SOE), which involves the extent to which employees identify their supervisor with the organization. With samples of 251 social service employees in the United States (Study 1) and 346 emp...

The success of an online community relies on the willingness of its members to be a part of and continuously participate within the community. In other words, online communities are successful if members continuously contribute knowledge to the community. In Information System research, few studies exist examining the determinants of continuous knowledge contribution. This paper fills the gap b...

Motivating employees to contribute knowledge has been a daunting challenge in knowledge management. This study examines how job design influences employees' knowledge contribution to electronic repositories. Based on Warr's Vitamin Model, we posit that the job autonomy, skill variety, task feedback, task identity, and task significance aspects of job design influence employees' knowledge contri...

This study aims to examine what kinds of behaviors constitute virtual community citizenship behaviors (VCCB) and what factors influence community members’ willingness to engage in VCCB. In this paper, I propose a theoretical framework consisting of the main antecedents of VCCB (affective commitment, structural embeddedness and membership tenure) and a multi-dimensional VCCB construct (altruism,...

The paper contributes to a growing stream of research on consumer acculturation, examining the influence of acculturation on interpersonal trust in the banking sector. This study develops a conceptual model based on culture-based differences in cognitive and affective trust. The moderating effect of consumer acculturation level on cognitive trust, affective trust, and targets of commitment is c...